The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-19
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ANTI-POVERTY CRUSADERS.
In Their Individual Cases the Fight Seems
to Have Proved Very Successful.

In Their Individual Cases the Fight Seems
to Have Proved Very Successful.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
In nearly every speech which DR.. McGIynn
has delivered before tho Anti-Poverty Society,
he has made some allusion to the sacrifices
which he claims to have ade in the in terest Of
the poor masses. More than he has re-
ferred to the poverty to which he has been
duced by disobedience to his ecclesiastical
periors, and on occasion he drew tears from
the eyes OF his bearers by picturlng himself
sadly departing from the pulpit with less than
500 in his possession. As time passes on, how
ever, those who wept over the priests poverty.
are wondering how the doctor has managed TO
live for several months on that 500 in the style
he keeps up He declared that he has not re-
ceved a penny by his lecturing tours but has,
on the contrary, expended 3 considerable sum in
travelling.
He has written only two or three articles for
the papers and magazines. These did not bring
him siO0 His relatives are poor and he has
received no financial assistance from them.
Nevertheless DR.. McGynn. since he left St
is decidedly antfpoverty. His regular horel
expenses are said to have been moro than 800
month. Once or twice q week, too, he gives
nice little dinners. 1t ia said, to his associate
leaders of the United Labor party. His pocket
book is always we'll filled, as is evidenced by his
free-handed charity of late. He practically
parish, and lie ever ready with assistance for
those of his poor parishioners who have ad-
hered to him since his downfall
1t is said, also, that he has recently greatly
improved the worldly condition OF his brothers
family in Brooklyn. and is negotiating for the
purchase of some property in that city.
People are beginning to wonder just wherein
DR.. McGlypn's worldly sacrifices consist, and to
ask themselves what 10 the source of the Doctors
income. Both he and Henry George, though
they have as yet failed to improve the condition
of others by their crusade. seem to have
succeeded pretty we'll in abolishng their own
poverty.
Mr. George has come out about $50 900 ahead
by his warfare monopoly. At this time last
year he was not worth So 00o Now he is said
to have 500. 000 or $4,000 He has a very pretty
house on Pleasant avenue, in a fashionable
suburb and lives quite in the style
OF those boated monopolists whom
he denounces SO freely. His books,
which had a comparatively small sale before he
for mayor, have brought In so, 900 or $780,
600 in the last ten months he also makes
money from his paper, the Standard, which was
established on the basis OF the celebrity he
gained in the mayoralty contest. In fact. the
Improvement in Mr.. Georges finances is due di-
rect to his crusade against poverty.
Mr.. George is said to be as close-fsted as the
typical monopolist. He is eloquent in beseech-
ing others TO contribute to the ant-povsrty fund.
but 1t Is said his own pursestrings are drawn
tightly against poverty's appeals He talks of
In his relations with the employees of his paper
he is anything but generous v-f
Jonn McMackin, chairman OF the United La
Dor party OF New York county, has also found
aooiishlng poverty as paying business. He
does not find 10 necessary to work at his trade
great deal nowadays. aud is in danger of becom-
ing capitalist himself. He is growing rich
tongue work. and is likely to grow richer by the
same means, for il Is settled that he shall run
for the legislature in whatever district the
George people are the most confident Of carry
Ing.